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HANDLE FOR VESSELS.

No. 475,216. Patented May 17,1892.

A TTOHNE Y8 Nrra .TATES ATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK HABERMAN, OF NEW YORK, AND ERNEST SIFFERLEN, OF MAS- PETH,ASSIGNORS TO THE I-IABERMAN MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF BERLIN, NE\V YORK.

HANDLE FOR VESSELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 475,216, dated May 17.1892.

Application filed January '7, 1892. Serial N0.4=17,29'7. (N model.)

To all-whom it may concern: A, said wings l-I being bent or flared tosit Be it known that We, FREDERICK HABER- snugly against the vessel, asseen in Figs. 1,

MAN, residing at New York, in the county of 2, and 4.

New York, and ERNEST SIFFERLEN, residing The blank is so shaped that thehandle- 5 at Maspeth, in the county of Queens, State of body B, whenfinished, will have the holes I New York, citizens of the United States,have I, Fig. 2', at the top and bottom to allow the invented new anduseful Improvements in escape of enamel, water, or other extraneousHandles for Vessels, of which the following is material, which may enterthe handle during a specification. manufacture or use.

IO This invention relates to an improvement The holes K K in the upperhandle branch in handles for vessels; and the invention con- D serve forthe reception of a rivet or pivot sists in the details of constructionset forth in L, supporting links M. These links support the followingspecification and claims, and a pivot N, which, with the lip or tongue0, illustrated in the accompanying drawings,in can be readily shapedfrom sheet metal. T0

t5 which the tongue 0 is secured the coverP for the ves- Figure l is aside elevation of the handle sel A. The pins L, N, and links M form whatapplied to a vessel. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation may be called a doublehinge, and the play of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section of part of the oflinks M about pivot L allows the cover P handle along :1; 68, Fig. 4.Fig. 4 is a section to adjust or seat itself neatly on the vessel A.

20 along y y, Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a plan view of a The handle is recessedor bent,so as to form blank for a handle. Fig. 6 is a plan view of thelaterally-projecting side stops or shoula partly-formed handle. Fig. 7is a section ders Q for preventing excessive motion of the along 2 2,Fig. 6. Figs. 8 and 9 are detail links M. The pivot portion N and tongueor views of a hinge. attaching portion 0 can be readily formed or 25 Inthe drawings, the letter A indicates a bent from a single piece of sheetmetal. The

vessel of sheet metal, enamel ware, or other pivot portion N, as seen inFig. 3, is tubular, suitable substance. In making the handle of and arivet maybe inserted into and secured sheet metal a blank, as seen inFig. 5, is first in said tubular portion; but We have found stamped orcut out. This blank is pressed that a secure device can be obtainedwithout 0 or shaped into the form shown in Fig. 6, so as such rivet.

to form the sections B B for the handle or That we claim as new, anddesire to secure body portion, and the sections 0 O for the by LettersPatent, is bottom handle branch, and the sections D D 1. Ahandlecomposed of two sections formed for the upper handle branch. Thethumbintegral with a connecting-rib F, located at 5 rest sections areindicated by E E, and the the back of the handleshank to formasmoothjoining-rib F connects the handle-sections. seamless rear portion andalso formed inte- The handle sections, on being bent or gral above theconnecting-rib with the secbrought together, leave the joining-rib F at'tions of a thumb-rest, substantially as dethe back of the handle, so asto form a smooth scribed.

40 rear portion, which is acceptable to the touch. 2. A handle composedof two sections formed The thumb-rest sections are formed incorreintegral with a connecting-rib F, and comresponding halves orsections, so that when prising the lower branches 0 and the upper thehandle-sections are brought together, the branches D, each branch havinga wing H at thumb-rest E will be formed as seen in Figs. its extremityand the upper branches formed 45 1 and 2. The thumb-rest and handleparts integral with the thumb-rest sections E, subbeing all in onepiece, will not be liable to stantially as described. come apart. Theholes G in the wings or end 3. The combination, with a vessel A and aportions H are for the insertion of rivets or handle therefor, of acover P, having an atfastenings to secure the handle to the vesseltached tongue 0 provided with a pivot pority to the side shoulders ofthe handle, said links being arranged between the side shoul- I 5 dersand the vessel, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

F. HABERMAN. E. SIFFERLEN.

Witnesses:

WM. 0. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBER.

